Today's Johor state election campaigning brought a long-running debate within Malaysia's socialist left into public view. On 15 June, the anticapitalist Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM — Socialist Party of Malaysia) and the youth-based social democratic Parti Ikatan Demokratik Malaysia (MUDA — Malaysian United Democratic Alliance) announced the formation of a Progressive Bloc to coordinate their campaigns in the Johor and Negeri Sembilan state elections. Two days later, the Angkatan Kesatuan (…)

Chee Soon Juan has led the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) since 1993, making him the longest-serving leader of a mainstream opposition party in a political system the PAP has dominated without interruption since 1959. Facing repeated lawsuits, bankruptcy, and imprisonment for acts of civil disobedience, Chee has consistently argued that Singapore's economic model — built on suppression of political pluralism, media control, and neoliberal growth metrics — is reaching its limits. The costs (…)

It was one of the last interviews before Indonesia's greatest novelist died on 30 April 2006, two months after his eighty-first birthday.
The interview ranges across his health, his mother, his incarceration on Buru Island, his views on women and sexuality, his assessment of Soekarno, his unsuccessful Nobel Prize nominations, and the Indonesian political leadership vacuum that followed the fall of Suharto. Readers will find here the Pramoedya who called the 1990s activists who brought down (…)

Christian Zeller soutient que la gauche européenne doit élaborer une stratégie intégrée qui soutient simultanément la résistance ukrainienne contre l'occupation russe, s'oppose à la vague générale de réarmement en Europe et poursuit une transformation socio-écologique radicale. Partant de la rivalité impérialiste croissante, de la montée des forces national-conservatrices et fascistes et de la fragilité structurelle du projet européen néolibéral, Zeller soutient qu'une telle stratégie n'est (…)

Christian Zeller argues that the European left must develop an integrated strategy that simultaneously supports Ukrainian resistance against Russian occupation, opposes Europe's general rearmament wave, and pursues radical socio-ecological transformation. Taking as his premise the intensifying imperialist rivalry, the rise of national-conservative and fascist forces, and the structural fragility of the neoliberal European project, Zeller contends that such a strategy is only plausible at (…)